New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-11-11

Tho Forcite. Company, whose works at Lake
IIopatcong, ~ j., have blown mp twice in sixteen
months and Killed fourteen men. is under in
dictmcnt for maintaining nuisance, and the in
dctmcnt has been upheld AS valid. Nui, ance' ~
mild term indeed 20 apply to such dangerous
business. The need Of greater care in the manu-
facturc o. explosives and Of laws 10 govern their
manufacture is becoming constantly more apparent
Tho humiliation OF Governor Foraker was not
one Of the features Of the Presidents personal
triumph which his Mugwump admirers are pro-
claiming.
Mr. Chaplin has what will he his last
election. Any candidate who with all the condi-
lions markedly favorable carried Brooklyn with
only thousand votes TO spare will be dropped
bv Mclaughlin as unsafe next time. Mr.. Chaplin
has been highly favored by good fortune during
his political career; but he has carried his pitcher
too often to the we'll
Mr. Cleveland seems TO have swappcd of the
Mugwumps for the boodlcrs. The boodlcrs control
more votes.
Some time ago one Of our United States Court
Judges. in defiance Of grographcrs. declared OIL
cially that the East River was not a river at
all There was general feeling that an ndgnity
had been put upon that part OF the waters sur
rounding New York. but the East River bore the
slight in unrunled silence. Now behold, it's hour
OF triumph has come. a learned professor has
demonstrated before the National Academy OF
Sciences that il IL not for the East River
or the Fast What-s-it-thcrc would be no New
York hnrbor TO speak OF. 1t seems that u great
many millions more cubic feet Of water flow
westward through the Fast River than in the
opposite direction. and that it is this alone that
prevents Concy Island and Sandy Hook from
Joining their arms OF sand in indissolublc union
Hereafter It f. plain the East River must be
spoScn of with profound rcsrcct--the United States
Courts 10 the contrary Notwithstanding.
"Thc Atlanta Constitution states that orders
for over $50 600 worth OF bottles were filed the
day the Atlanta glass works were opened. III
II turns out that the bottles in question arc long
and black the future OF Temperance reform In
Georgia Will look pretty dark.
Collector Saltonstall OF Boston says Of Presl-
dent Cleveland that be is rs lrm n rock fer lie
principle OF Civil Service Reform. However Ills
may be. there is no doubt that the President is
away or in the application OF the principle
Witness the cruel instance recorded on the sew
enth pngc OF Mondays TRIBUNE, where CORE
spondcnt described how Mrs. Bacon. n soldiers
widow and n satisfactory official. has lcen removed
from the Ncw-Lebanon IN. " postollce, and "a
strong Democrat o. pointed in her place. BY their
fruits We shall know them" and this looks like
q mighty bad crop.
Lord Salisbury makes merry over the Irish
situation. That is thc old story Nero fiddling ;
Rome burning
Br'er Pulitzer's enemies are glccfuly saying that
"The World" Is nattcncd Mt the polls 1t is none
OF our funeral OF course but would advise
them not TO dance on Bier Pulitzer's remains
lust yet They will find him n rather lively corpse.
The brassworkers' strike IS practically ended,
and the men have been defeated. This strike
was without excuse. 1t was made because the
employers refused TO continue the Saturday half
holiday with full pay. The employers had allowed
this privilege for many months and found that
they could afford 1t no longer. Their action was
reasonable, but the workmen declined TO act in
the same spirit Hence the failure of the strike
which has hurt nobody so much as the strikers.
"The Boston Transcript" breaks out, in the
following Mugwump ode:
All hail 10 the Mugwmp eagle,
Proud bird of freedom, all hail
efo bird that man can inveIge,
Nor put salt on his beautiful tall
BY the way, the President whom Tho Tran